Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOVE. A merry young widow (Harriet Andersson) lets a red-blooded travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) allay her grief. Result: a lusty, lightsome sex comedy by Swedish Director Jörn Donner...
...outcome, will be more chary of demanding publication. Their subsidies may be rather for crop limitation than for production. Literary research will dwell less on the disinterment of dead facts, more on the communication of live ideas." Among the live ideas proposed by Bishop: the literature of travel, exploration, adventure; a study of "TIME style and its effect on undergraduate themes"; an analysis of "the explosion of pornography in the sexy '60s and its demand for literary sanctification...
...Korea to see how they've rearranged the mud," he told the soldiers, sounding like the veteran he is. "If you wonder why I keep coming back to Korea, I have the same travel agent you have." Then, trying one based on his vague resemblance to the Secretary of Defense, he added: "Everywhere we go we get a big reception. Thousands are waiting to cheer. They think I'm Secretary McNamara with shutdown orders...
Since nothing can travel faster than light, any object that changes in brilliance cannot be larger than the distance light would travel during the period of fluctuation. Even the crowded nuclei of normal galaxies are many thousand light-years in diameter, so no known influence could cross them quickly enough to make them flicker on a monthly tempo. An object that flickers so fast would have to be less than one light-year in diameter, unless it follows physical laws that are wholly unsuspected by human scientists...
...This would mean speeds on the order of a couple of hundred miles an hour at the minimum," the M.I.T. professor said. Counting time to and from the airport, this would achieve about the same speed as present air travel...